About the Project

Learning something new is difficult; it takes guts. Folks come in with a lot of energy and eagerness, only to experience discouragement when there aren’t a lot of resources to step beyond the ‘learn syntax’ to programming. Often there are questions of, “Well, I worked through this beginner book. Now what?” How do you answer that?

Many want to learn to code, and many choose Python as a first language. You direct them to Learn Python the Hard Way, Codecademy, or Dive into Python. Great! But now what?

I’ve built 5 digestible projects to gradually progress the Python learner from near drowning to a decent swimmer. The goal is to have new coders feeling accomplished and to continuing learning.

Contributions

A thank you

I want to give a huge thank you to:

To Contribute

If you are a new coder, and something is not clear to you, go ahead and file an issue or email me directly.

If you are a seasoned coder, there are many TODOs and issues that can be knocked out, and would be greatly appreciated!

I encourage teachers, mentors, workshop leaders, etc, to use these tutorials as material to teach off of, and to give feedback via filing an issue or emailing me.

Feel free to also for continual development, or say thanks with Gratipay.

About Me

I am an insomniac backend engineer for Spotify working in the San Francisco office working on integration projects for partners.

I have a business degree in finance and economics, but fell in love with programming in 2011. I “officially” started my engineering career at Red Hat in the fall of 2012 where I worked on freeIPA, particularly on integrating the product into other Open Source projects.

I am also the founder of the San Francisco Chapter of PyLadies, a mentorship group for women in the Python and Open Source community.

I like to speak. A lot. I particularly talk on the Python community, as well as the work that I do with freeIPA integration. Email me if you would like to make my talks list longer.

I respond to Twitter faster than email.

I vent sometimes. My personal projects can be found on GitHub.